That
was the title of the Mirror article of 23:00, 21 May 2016 (09:47, 22
May 2016) by James Desborough , Emma Pryer , Dan Warburton.

It turns out that it wasn’t by the parents who called Sharon “­ignorant, ill-informed” but a friend of the McCanns .

The
article is clear: “A family friend said: “It’s very ­disappointing when
someone with such a high profile makes this sort of ­ignorant,
ill-informed comment.””

Not the McCanns but this “family friend”.
Please don’t say it was Clarence Mitchell as he has outlasted his use, a
long time ago.

This person, whoever s/he is, is far from being a friend of the McCanns even though s/he boasts of having the title.

In
fact we think that the McCanns have so few true friends left right now that
someone should think of starting up a foundation to save this endangered
species from extinction.

However we do fear that the Save the Friend of the McCanns
would come too late already as it seems, even their close and monitoring
family have turned their backs on them.

As we have already pointed out, if it wasn’t for this “friend” we wouldn’t ever have heard of the story.

Sharon
Osbourne answers candidly a question about leaving children alone, and
in her mind, as it happens with everyone else in the planet, whenever
it’s mentioned that a child has gone missing or that one was neglected,
Madeleine McCann comes to mind.

And when the issue is about
neglect, as was the case with the questions put to Sharon Osbourne, then
Madeleine does not come to mind on her own but hand-in-hand with the
fact that her parents got off scot-free with the horrible neglect that
enabled her to have disappeared.

This is what the vast majority of the world thinks, and we are certain was what was behind Sharon Osbourne’s candid answers .

“Sharon,
63, and her panellists were discussing a thread on Mumsnet social media
site. A British woman had asked if parents would leave a 10-month-old
child sleeping peacefully at home for seven minutes.Another
questioned whether it was acceptable to leave a baby sleeping while they
picked something up ­approximately 50 metres away.Reacting to
the suggestion, mum-of-three Sharon said: “This is insane. It is like so
many things happen in just a second. If you leave a candle on and the
curtain blows on it and it caught on fire.”

Next, who did Sharon Osbourne think up to criticise parents who leave children alone? The McCanns.

She doesn’t even mention their name but everyone, literally everyone, knows who she’s speaking about:

“I will tell you a very quick story. There was a husband and wife on holiday in Portugal.They left their baby in the room sleeping, sleeping while they went to dinner in the restaurant.While
they were in the resort their baby was taken. And it is like, ‘Oh but
we can see everything that is going on’ and it is, like, insane.”

No intention of attacking them but simply using an example which everyone knows, Maddie, to prove her point.

Sharon’s words would have gone unnoticed if it wasn’t for the “friend” who was set drawing the attention to them.

This
“friend” certainly wasn’t very much worried “about the effect it could
have on Madeleine’s brother and sister, as well as the wider family”
when literally forcing this under the brightest spotlight possible.

To prove that she didn’t mean to attack the McCanns, Sharon Osbourne later apologised or her words in a tweet:

‏”TheTalk @TheTalkCBS@MrsSOsbourne: "I'm truly sorry if me bringing this case up again has brought distress to the McCann family."”

Sharon
Osbourne may still think, in her ignorance of the case, that she should be
worried to speak the truth about the McCanns. Someone should warn her
that it’s no longer the case. Clobber away, Sharon, now it’s so
fashionable that we won’t be surprised if the next in line to take a hit
on them will be the Kardashians.

Sharon Osbourne’s apologies
reinforces the idea that if it wasn’t for the “friend” this would never be news and news it was.

Then the “friend” shows what a great friend s/he really is:

“Kate
and Gerry were with other parents at a restaurant a few hundred metres
away and the adults took it in turns to pop back to check on their
kids.”

A “few hundred metres”???

No one has ever said it
was even a hundred metres! Even Martin Brunt in the report where he
faked the Big Round Table says it’s about 80 paces.

Now the “friend” comes and puts the meal at a distance of at least 300 metres (100 would be “a hundred”, 200 “a couple of hundred”).

That would have been further than the Baptista Supermarket!

More than half way to the Millenium.

What
next? Is it going to be said they had their meals near a Post Office
where they could quickly send a letter to their kids in case it was
needed?

What a great friend the “friend” is! Who needs enemies with friends like these?

And one cannot help noticing that it took 3 Mirror journalists to write this article! And even after its first publication an update was needed.

3. Insane supporting “insane” negligence

We know that
the intention was to spread negligence further, so it was really
unsurprising to see Insane supporting Sharon Osbourne, or rather,
fiercely supporting negligence.

That fact alone, that Insane
supports negligence so vehemently, should fire red flags to all those following the case.

We even thought best to bring his post on the subject because it really shows what we want to show.

For obvious reasons, we have censored it and will refrain to provide a link. In blue what Insane copied from the Mirror, in red his inputs to the subject:

It is very rare that I'll comment specifically on a newspaper article,
mainly because they are usually unremitting (censored), but I can't let this
one go without adding a few words. This is from the Mirror on Sunday
22nd May 2016. I'll be editing out a few bits simply because they get a
bit (censored) about people lifting whole articles, but it won't
significantly alter the piece

Okay,
let's start there. After listening to the clip, it's clear she refers
to the course of action as ''insane'' and not the parents themselves. So
that's one fib for starters. Also, who the (censored) are they to be
'blasting' her, even if she had referred to them as insane? They're the
ones who got themselves into this (censored).

Kate and Gerry hit back at 'ignorant' 'Ill-informed' star after she accuses them on TV

Outspoken
star Sharon Osbourne has been blasted by the parents of missing
Madeleine McCann after she branded them “insane” for leaving their
daughter alone.

Yes, we've done that.

Former X Factor
judge Sharon made the hurtful claims on her US chat show The Talk as she
criticised parents for leaving children without supervision.

Hurtful? Well, the truth hurts. Tough (censored).

In
a clear attack on Kate and Gerry McCann, Sharon said: “I will tell you a
very quick story. There was a husband and wife on holiday in Portugal.

“They left their baby in the room sleeping, sleeping while they went to dinner in the restaurant.

“While
they were in the resort their baby was taken. And it is like, ‘Oh but
we can see everything that is going on’ and it is, like, insane.”

I see no attack. I see a brief account of what took place. She didn't even name them.

They did leave the children in their room, sleeping

They did go to dinner

Their daughter did disappear at some point that evening

They did claim that they had full sight of the flat. That was a lie.

All I see is a perfectly factual description

The comments on Friday’s CBS show have outraged Kate and Gerry.

Have
they? Have they really? Well, frankly, I don't give a (censored). They seem
to be outraged at everything that doesn't go their way, this pair

A
family friend said: “It’s very ­disappointing when someone with such a
high profile makes this sort of ­ignorant, ill-informed comment.

It isn't ignorant

It isn't ill-informed

It is absolutely accurate, according to the McCann's own statements

“She should think about the effect it could have on Madeleine’s brother and sister, as well as the wider family.

No,
Mr and Mrs McCann. The only people responsible for the effect on the
family are the two of you. Whatever happened to your daughter that night
was precipitated or facilitated by your unfathomable parenting, so
don't you dare blame others for the grief you have caused your relatives

“Kate and Gerry have never forgiven themselves and this should not have been aired in a random way, as it ­apparently was.

Nor
should they ever forgive themselves. But they don't get to say when
something is aired. The discussion was about parents leaving children
home alone, like they did. If they didn't want to be part of the subject
matter, they shouldn't have done it.

“It’s based on ignorance of the true facts. While she’s entitled to her view she should keep it to herself.”

It
is not based on ignorance of the true facts. Those are the facts as
recorded in their statements and reported by the Portuguese court

Of
course she is entitled to her view and she is under NO obligation to
keep it to herself. Who do you think you are? Do you think you can
simply silence anyone who speaks about your case? You have a (censored)
nerve.

Maddie was snatched from a holiday apartment in Praia da
Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday and has
never been found.

Kate and Gerry were with other parents at a
restaurant a few hundred metres away and the adults took it in turns to
pop back to check on their kids.

Sharon, 63, and her panellists
were discussing a thread on Mumsnet social media site. A British woman
had asked if parents would leave a 10-month-old child sleeping
peacefully at home for seven minutes.

In the UK there is no legal
minimum age below which it becomes an automatic offence to leave
children home alone, but the advice of government and child welfare
organisations is that babies and young children should NEVER be left
home alone, not even for five minutes

Another questioned whether
it was acceptable to leave a baby sleeping while they picked something
up ­approximately 50 metres away.

Reacting to the suggestion,
mum-of-three Sharon said: “This is insane. It is like so many things
happen in just a second. If you leave a candle on and the curtain blows
on it and it caught on fire.

Quite right“And I think of all these scenarios in my head and there is no way in a million years that you would ever do that.”

Good. All caring, responsible parents would, I'm sure, agree with Sharon on that.Kate and Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, have previously admitted being plagued by guilt over missing Maddie

Days after her abduction dad Gerry said: “Hindsight has proven we made a mistake and we would never leave the children again.”

So he acknowledges they were in the wrong

And
as Kate launched her book, Madeleine, in 2011, Gerry said: “Blaming us
takes it away from the abductor. Someone stole a child. Of course we
feel guilt. But it doesn’t bring the child back. So we tried to take
control of things you can influence, to help the search.”

Well,
to be strictly accurate, we don't know what happened to Madeleine, do
we? There was no witness to any 'abduction'. It's conceivable she got
out of the apartment, wandered off and ended up in the sea or falling
into a hole. The police have also considered other scenarios, that she
met with an accident in the apartment and someone removed her body. Of
course, none of those things could have happened had you been thereKate
said: “People say, ‘Why didn’t you get a babysitter?’ Having a
babysitter implied there was a risk situation and we just didn’t see it
like that.

Excuse me? When is it 'not necessary' to have a babysitter look after toddlers when you go out to dinner?

Why
does one engage a babysitter? To ensure there is someone to care for
the children. To keep them safe. In case there is an emergency. In case
they wake up and become distressed. To feed them, provide drinks or
change nappies. To prevent abduction is well down on the list. Why?
Because of all the things that could happen to an unsupervised child,
that is one of the least likely

“We didn’t think it was necessary. It wasn’t to save money.”

You
didn't think it was necessary? You didn't think it was necessary to
have someone watch over three tiny infants and make sure they were okay?
What do you normally do at home, Kate? Do you go out and leave the kids
alone there?

But she later added: “It goes without saying that we now bitterly regret it.”

I bet you do. You've never urged others not to do it though, have you?

“It never entered our minds. We felt very safe — it was a family resort.

No,
it probably wouldn't enter mine either - I'd be too busy worrying they
might get out of bed, trip and fall, hurt themselves, try to run a bath
and fall in, get into the kitchen and get hold of a knife, get out of
the apartment through the door left unlocked and disappear into the
street, get knocked down by a car, fall into the swimming pool.

So how come you weren't thinking of any of those dangers when you decided they were perfectly safe?

“At home you put your kids to bed and go off and do things about the house and garden and don’t think about it.

At home, yes. You are still on the premises.

“We were checking on our kids only metres away.

100 metres, Gerry. With a swimming pool, a wall and a road in the way.

After, we were consumed with guilt. But we can’t change it.”

No,
you can't change it. But neither can you impose a worldwide opinion
blackout because you don't like being reminded what you did

Sharon’s publicist was approached for comment but did not respond.

Probably just as well. So let me tell you what my response would be.

Sharon Osborne gave an accurate account of the lack of childcare provided for your three infants in Portugal.

You
may not like it, but you have absolutely no right whatsoever to
criticise her or try to silence her or anyone else, for that matter. As
for saying she should keep her opinion to herself, my response to that
would have been that I regard you as deeply irresponsible parents who
are far more interested in your own reputations than you are in finding
your daughter. I wouldn't let you look after a hamster, let alone a
child.

I cannot imagine how you think these 'enraged' articles
will help you. All they do is allow the world a little glimpse into your
true character. It is not a pleasant experience.

One last thing -

What
is not generally known is that you decided you were going to leave the
kids home alone and dine out before you even left these shores. Before
you knew in which apartments you would be staying. Before you had seen
the resort. Before you knew how far away the restaurant would be. Before
you had any inkling how quiet or busy it would be.

So don't
give me all that ''it felt so safe'' (censored). The decision was made
before you landed in Portugal. You even tried to negotiate a discount
because the resort didn't provide a baby listening service.

No question that no one can accuse more the McCanns of being negligent than Insane!

Insane who says what the ERVD
dog found in the Scenic was because the McCanns got whiffed on with
cadaver scent in the apartment, a scent which was there because it
lingered there in the air for those 3 months irrelevant of how much the
apartment was ventilated by the cleaning staff and those staying there.

Insane
who says that the scent outside in the backyard signalled by the ERVD
dog was either human bones in fertilizer or apartment 5A is on top of a medieval graveyard!

Insane
who says all this behaves now like the most keen teacher’s pet raising his hand before anyone else in the class to eagerly support the
McCann’s “friend” in letting the world know how negligent Sharon
Osbourne said the McCanns were. Even comes out of “retirement” to do so.

The
fact that Insane is such a dedicated negligence supporter tells us
immediately that there was no negligence whatsoever because if there had been any
he would be the first not to draw attention to it.

He just shows how really desperate the other side is to push the idea that the McCanns were insanely neglectful.

Reasons why?

To
put the focus on the McCanns and pressure whoever has to decide about
Operation Grange to go for the Third Option: the neglectful McCanns and
the bungling Portuguese burglar who killed Maddie in a panic moment.

“Anonymous 23 May 2016, 18:00:00http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3604804/Katie-Price-agrees-Sharon-Osbourne-branded-Madeleine-McCann-s-parents-insane.htmlThere
is a lot of Anti Mc Cann feeling being generated from these articles in
which the neglect narrative is being reinforced. A minority understand
that Team Mc Cann push neglect to 'enable abduction'. Many members of
the public believe neglect actually occurred. Its frustrating to see
neglect being widely accepted -does Textusa feel it is damaging the
likelihood of the truth finally emerging? OK, we are seeing widespread
feeling against the Mc Canns but I'm not sure if it s a good thing or
not - for those of us in pursuit of the whole truth emerging.. “

This was our reply:

“Textusa 24 May 2016, 14:48:00Anonymous 23 May 2016, 18:00:00Apologies for the late reply.There’s
no question that the BH are forcing for a “Third Option” solution to
the case. Really, really pressuring that the McCanns are found guilty of
neglect and that it was this which enabled Maddie to be killed and/or
abducted by some mysterious person.Reinforcing what we have said
in our comment of 22 May 2016, 22:16:00 , it has been noted to us that
Sharon Osbourne only mention the subject in response to a question. The
spontaneity of the answer tells us 2 things: it wasn’t rehearsed and
Maddie is indeed a worldwide phenomenon, a cultural happening ingrained
in humanity’s brain.A child went missing? Remember Maddie. A child was left alone? Remember Maddie.Sharon
doesn’t even mention their names. This would have gone completely
unnoticed if it hadn’t, as we said, the BH forced it down our throats.What
we have seen in terms of the escalation of the issue is that it really
interests the other side that the public perceive the McCanns as
neglectful.In our current post we have given one reason why: focus the attention on the McCanns.In
our post “Third Option” we have given the other: close the case with
neglect, no one is charged but the McCanns – and only the McCanns – get
“punished” for the rest of their lives for having been neglectful.In that post we have given the reasons as to why we think it would be a really stupid thing to go for the Third Option.You
ask if we feel that neglect being widely accepted as it seems to be
will be damaging the likelihood of the truth finally emerging.Very good question.Let
us answer by proposing that you compare the BH as someone who has been
sold to us as a brilliant poker player but that we know he isn’t –
please note that we’re just making an analogy and not, in any way,
passing any sort of judgement about the capabilities of the people of
the other side.To call this player’s bluff there’s only one way: have him sit at a poker table and play.You have to sit him there. No other way to disprove him.Only at that table will he prove what kind of a player he is.Outside
that table and before playing he can be anything. You can waste a
million words with factual information of what a bluff he is and he will
just respond with words saying that what you say is not true no matter
how much fact put before him.Sitting and holding his cards and winning or losing money is the proof of the pudding. The only proof.So do let them push the Third Option as much as they want. If that is what will get them sitting at that poker table, then good.Once there, all they have to do is answer the questions we put in our post “Maddie’s Pandora’s Box”.If they can, then they are holding 4 aces and we were wrong.If they can’t, if they are just bluffs, then the truth will emerge by itself.Now,
why do we think we live in positive times? Well, they haven’t sat at
that table yet but they are showing signs that they haven’t been given
any other option but to do so.The despair and intensity with which they are pushing the neglect tells us clearly that.”

To
finalise this issue we say if the other side really wants to be stupid,
by all means they should go for the Third Option. We will be here
waiting.

5. Negligence = Abduction

Please do not be mislead
by the subtitle. It doesn’t say that negligence enables abduction –
which we fully agree it absolutely does – but that negligence equals
abduction.

Before we explain what we mean, let us just say to
those who say there was no need to have negligence to simulate abduction
because the child could have been taken away from the bedroom while
parents sleeping, that you’re letting yourself be carried away by your
imagination. You’re even sounding like SY and their Algarvian Paedo
predator who entered into bedrooms with his alcoholic breath and
bandaged feet, while their parents slept next door.

The Portuguese apartments are much too small.
Unless the abductor sat in their living-room for a couple of days
before, noting what a heavy-sleepers the McCanns were and they left the
front door open while they snored it would not have been minimally
credible to say the child had been snatched while they were inside.
Those shutters make one hell of a noise to allow that to happen. And one
cannot “pick a lock” to open those windows from the outside. Plus, the
window is not by the road. To go there one has to have the intention of
going there.

No way can an abduction scenario be with the parents
inside the apartment. And the choice made for them to be outside was to
make them neglectful.

And this is exactly where negligence equals abduction: they are both hoaxes.

In
2007, they did all they could to make the abduction hoax a reality. The
scripting was poor, the actors muddled up their lines and that hoax
quickly fell. So they went into the next one, the negligence hoax. A
very successful one.

If up until now, it was camouflaged that all was regrettable but within “responsible
parenting” (the idea to cause an exact and opposite reaction), now it’s being explicit that the McCanns are to be known as
neglectful.

We would like to address the media for a minute.

From
2007 onwards you pushed the hoax that Maddie was abducted. Time has
proved that it didn’t go well. You lied about this little girl and
people won’t forget you did that.

Now in 2016 you are pushing
another hoax: negligence. You’re trying to cover a lie with another lie.
Covering lies with lies never works. Please be careful with the choices
you make. Please don’t let negligence become abduction whereby it’s
reached a point of not being able to backtrack.

Remember Hillsborough. Always remember Hillsborough.

6. The McCann appeal

From Sky News, Jan 14 2010

As
expected, the McCanns have filed an appeal to the Supreme Justice
Court. We said they had to do it, even if to just save face, and they
did it.

Now we have to wait and see if the court accepts the appeal or not .

As
we have also said, this acceptance/refusal by the court has nothing to do with content of said appeal.

Whatever legal grounds the plaintiffs have decided to base their appeal
on will be analysed if the appeal is accepted. The decision of the court is regardless of what it is said in
the appeal as to why appealed decision is, according to the appellants, being appealed.

Sometimes we tend to forget that any appeal has to be an appeal in the first place.

Said like this, it may even sound as stating the obvious but it isn’t as
there are a certain amount of rules that an appeal must obey.

These
rules exist to avoid the clogging of the system so no one simply
appeals just because one is not happy with what the court decided even
though one knows the court is right and one doesn’t even have any arguments
against the decision one is unhappy about.

To allow that would be
to allow a waste of time for all and a needless allocation of court
resources, human or other, to that waste of time.

For that reason, there are parameters within which the appeal must fall within for it to be considered an appeal.

If an appeal is filed outside these parameters then it is considered having a technical error, or a “vice of form” [in Portuguese: vício de forma] to speak legalese, independent
of its content. It is to be stopped at the door so to speak.

That’s the analysis that’s ongoing now with the appeal the McCanns filed.

If
their appeal is accepted it doesn’t mean in any way that it has legs to
walk, it just means it has obeyed all the rules and legal parameters an
appeal to the Supreme Justice Court has to obey.

For the same
reasons, if it is refused it doesn’t mean the legal grounds it contained
weren’t valid but just that the Supreme Justice Court looked at it and
literally said “we can’t look at this”, justifying why it refused to
look at its content.

The probability of the McCann legal team incurring in a vice of form is very much low.

To us, what matters is that if it’s accepted
the sick saga will go on, and if it’s refused, the Appeal Court
sentence will “transit in judgement”, meaning it will be executed.

As
we have already said, taking into account the appeal was submitted on
May 25, we expect a decision on the second half of June.

If it’s not accepted, game over for the McCanns as far as the Portuguese justice system is concerned.

If
accepted, then Mr Amaral will have the time determined by law to
counter-appeal. We are not certain what the given is but would risk saying it isn’t under 30 working days.

That would throw things to September as from July 15 the system enters the Summer recess.

Once the counter-appeal is submitted, then it goes for analysis and decision of the court.

We
would really, really love to say something different from what we will
say next, but not seeing a decision taking less than 5 months. Yes,
we’re talking February 2017. After Christmas 2016. Our friend Isabel is
more optmistic as the reader will see.

If it’s the case the appeal is accepted we so wish to be wrong and her right.

For
those, and we know there are many, pulling their hair with frustration
with the time a process takes in Portugal, let us just say that Daniel
Abreu’s mother – yes, remember the little baby who in January 2014 was said by the parents to have been
abducted and was found a few days later
(our post “Daniel Abreu”) – is only now, almost half way into 2016,
going to trial for simulating the abduction of her son.

Please save your hair. You have reason to pull it but it won’t do anyone any good and will only damage your skull.

7. An opinion

Our friend Isabel wrote this on the McCann appeal subject:

At this moment we don't know what the appeal consists of. So below are some general terms of procedure in appeals to STJ [Supreme Court of Justice] as well as a subjective interpretation of the possible outcome .

The
Supreme Court of Justice can only reject appeals in precise
circumstances. Namely, in some occasions where the principle of “Double
Concur” takes place. In simple terms, let’s imagine that the first
instance court and the Relação Court [Appeal Court] had the same legal
decision. Then an appeal could, in theory, be rejected. Such is not the
case here. We have two decisions that are diverse. First Instance for
the McCanns, Relação for GA.Then an appeal can be rejected if a
mistake is there, I doubt that a good lawyer like ID [Isabel Duarte]
will make any mistakes or misjudge the possibility for an appeal.Then
we have cases where the STJ may refuse
appeals since these are not within the scope of its competence, which is
not the case here.The Appeals Court may confirm the decision of
the lower instance court, it may alter that decision or send the case
for a new trial (this last option being only in rare and very specific
circumstances).Since only in very rare cases can the STJ
introduce new evidence, the evidence given as proved or unproved in the
1st Instance Court is the one that prevails.In this case,
reading all the proved and unproved facts in the first instance
decision, gives a clear indication that the book is factual and
coincident with the criminal investigation files released to the public
before the book was published. There can be no illations then taken to
establish a cause effect between the damages allegedly suffered because
of the book since the following were proved:- The book is factual and coincident with the criminal investigation that was then public;- The same theories already circulated online with the knowledge of the applicants [McCanns];-
There were more books written portraying the same theory, with the
knowledge of the applicants and these were not pursed legally by the
same;- That the applicants sought publicity themselves and did put themselves in the public sphere:Appeals decision translated here for reference, namely proved and unproved facts:http://pjga.blogspot.ie/2016/04/full-translation-decision-from.htmlThe
duty of reserve was put aside by a superior court and it is not a
matter of proved or unproved facts. Regardless, it would be quite
unusual that a decision by a superior court on a simple point of law
would be wrong or subject to a different interpretation by the STJ.As
for the conflict of rights, this was also decided by the Appeals court
in favour of the constitutional right of freedom of expression in this
particular case since it was not the book that caused distress not did
it propagate new information, the decision stressing, once again, that
the book is coincident with the criminal investigation that had already
been released to the public.Then we also must consider the
following: although totally different cases, one resulting from an
Injunction (Cautionary Action) and the other from a declarative civil
law suit for damages, the Relação court has, in effect, two decisions on
this same matter. All decisions coming from a superior Court are
Jurisprudence and this will, no doubt, be weighed in the STJ revision of
the case. Furthermore, these two decisions of a superior court were
made with all 3 judges in agreement, in each case respectively.Time Frame:Some
sort of deadline, although I am not too sure of the legal timeframe,
will be given to GA’s Lawyer. All taken into account, we could be
talking around 6 months and expect a final decision by October/
November.Process:Pretty much the same as the Relação
appeal. A collective of 3 judges will decide on the case and their
decision will then be communicated to the parties’ lawyers.Finally
this appeal is not a surprise and ALL are entitled to due process and
using the justice mechanisms to safeguard their rights (if we agree or
not is another matter).As before, let’s serenely wait for the final decision on this case.

8. Conclusion

The bad news with the appeal is that the other side has gained precious time at a crucial time.

Until
the floor goes from under his feet, the condemned man will cling to
whatever hope for life even when blindfolded and with the rope around
his neck.

Those backing the McCanns have just gained precious
days and so keeping their hopes alive, even though the rope is causing a
rash on their necks.

In effect, with the appeal, they have thrown the decision of acceptance or not of the appeal to the time of the Brexit Poll.

If
the vote is to get out of the European Union, we’re not seeing Cameron
continuing in office. That will mean Theresa May will have been
unsuccessful with the Maddie case.

Another Prime-Minister and Home Secretary will inherit the poisoned chalice.

However,
and taking into account both the fact that the opposition will also
lose in case of a Brexit and David Cameron’s survival instincts and
capabilities, we wouldn’t be surprised if this issue wouldn’t be used to
distract attentions and allow things to continue as they were, only now
outside the EU (in case Brexit wins, that is).

If there is to be
one, we’re not seeing a new government starting with a unanimously
unpopular decision which the archiving of Operation Grange would be.

One
thing is certain, and that is with each day, each month, the issue will
be more and more scandalous. The embarrassment around it grows.

The
crowd is becoming a mob – and it is becoming a mob because of you
Establishment – and is becoming more and more restless and the anger is
growing. There are many examples in history of what restless and furious mobs can
do.

The main reason why biological weapons are not used in
warfare is because once released the outcome is always uncertain. Living
beings are unpredictable and a biological weapon can very easily turn
against the ones using it and in an uncontrolled manner.

We have seen the McCanns being compared with the most horrific criminals of history.

A child has died and no one can change that but now we’re seeing 2 youngsters pay a price no human being should ever pay.

Third Option apologists, as it’s obvious you’re indifferent to reason, at least stop and think about them.

Just as the parents of Madeleine McCann are reported to be taking their legal dispute with former PJ detective Gonçalo Amaral to Portugal’s Supreme Court, the Resident has learnt that millions of Brits have been reading the book at the heart of the fight by accessing it online.

Since “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” was once again cleared for sale following a ruling by the Appeal Court in Lisbon last month (click here), over two million one hundred and thirty eight thousand people have visited the Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann forum - the site that carries a translation of the book into English.

Moderators say that following the ruling by three Lisbon judges that Amaral was within his right to self expression in publishing his thesis about what may have happened to Madeleine, visits to the site have been exceeding 200,000 - 300,000 a day.

In all, over 11 million people have viewed “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” - while the forum claims its global number of visits now stand at over 81 million.

What all this means in terms of a legal fight that is concentrated on outlawing the book is unclear.

It is not banned in any country of the world, and even though the McCanns are apparently intent on suing any publisher who takes it on for the UK market (click here), it appears to have been read by well over 11 million English-speakers.

This news comes in a week when the British press has suddenly opened the floodgates to celebrity criticism of the McCann parents.

Sharon Osbourne, the outspoken media personality and wife of heavy-metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne, labelled the couple “insane” to have left their children unattended while on the fateful family holiday to Praia da Luz nine years ago, while former model Katie Price, speaking on the Loose Women chat show, backed her comments saying the couple shouldn’t have gone on holiday if they weren’t prepared to take their children out with them.

Osbourne’s remarks were labelled “ill informed” and “ignorant” by a friend of the McCanns, but the retort got nothing like the same kind of media coverage.

Meantime, blogs in Portugal following the McCanns legal fight have stressed that the couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court is by no means a ‘done deal’.

The “next step” will be to find out if the court accepts it. This decision is unlikely to be taken before the end of June, reports Textusa (one of the blogs most active for what it calls “the right to exercise the duty of being a citizen), with “expected notification around a week later”.

“If there are no technical mistakes” - Textusa explains that the appeal has to follow certain rules - Amaral will then have his own time-scale to submit counter-arguments, all of which will take the case well past the judicial holidays in August.

“We don’t see a decision from the Supreme Justice Court on this case before Christmas, and even then we’re being optimistic”, says the blog that writes all its posts in English.

Also writing in English for the benefit of non-Portuguese visitors, the Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral blogsite has revealed that contributions raised largely from Brits last year (click here) will cover Amaral’s latest call to defend what he maintains is an issue of the right to freedom of expression.

Says the blog: We remain confident, as always, that Justice will be served and Freedom of Speech, of Opinion and of Information will prevail.

The following clarification has been made by Get‘emGonçalo/Jill Havern on CMOMM:

“I'm posting this article written by Natasha Donn but it will need to be amended as the information she's posted about this forum isn't quite right and she said she'll amend it (when she gets back from the pub!)

But, basically, this forum has not attracted 81 million views on its own - it is the total views that this forum plus my four blogs that have attracted over 81 million views as shown on this link https://plus.google.com/109579544709177381612/plusones It seems to update twice a day.

And it is the total of all blogs and this forum that is attracting 200-300 thousand views per day. This month there has been more than 2 million views in total.

Truth of the Lie blog has had over 11 million views since I created it for AnnaEsse. There are other sites, including the original translation by AnnaEsse, and they will also have attracted many views.”

And:

“On 4th May (first screenshot) the Google+ views were 79,005,370 and after updating, developing, renaming (second screenshot) and promoting the site on Google+, twitter and facebook the views today now stand at 81,378,766 - so in just 23 days the views have increased by 2,373,396 - an average of 103,191 views per day. https://plus.google.com/109579544709177381612/posts

PeterMac emailed Natasha with the information about CMOMM and Truth of the Lie for her article.

Thank you PeterMac, and thank you Natasha for promoting CMOMM in Portugal “

Hi Textusa,thank you for this article and the third option outcome?On CMoMM,a forum reader(Spacecowboy) has put forward an interesting aspect of this case of Madeleine McCann,with regard to the occupation of 5a Ocean Club and a close family friend who claimed to have seen Madeleine and her siblings alive and well in the apartment on 3 May 2007?(Spacecowboy) states a "Ocean Club Booking Form"alteration for occupants being switched, that the "Family Friend" was actually occupying 5a and not the bigger apartment that he stated,which was used by Madeleine's family during the vacation?

What is crystal clear is the Mcs appeal has nothing whatsoever to do with GA's book hindering the search for M and all to do with defending a reputation which requires some really heavy-duty defending.Why not say - "We are keeping the money we have left to search for M when SY investigation comes to an end, in the few months quoted by Hogan-Howe." ?I suppose they will say they were trying to recover the huge costs they must have incurred thus far. However, those costs were of their own making when they instigated this case and then failed to reach an out-of-court settlement.

It seems we agree that at some point in time it was decided to opt for faked abduction as the solution to the problem they faced.

In our opinion, that just happened to be THE worst decision.

In hindsight there were other options instead of one taken from a Hollywood thriller, the faking of an abduction.

Note that we in post, do not say it was not possible to fake abduction without neglect, what we say is that it was not possible to fake that abduction with parents in the apartment.

So, for abduction to be minimally credible, they had to place the parents outside the apartment to give a window of opportunity for abduction.

Neglect was the choice to place parents outside. Could there have been other options? On first thought, one could say yes. As there could have been other options instead of trying to fake an abduction.

But the fact of matter is that it was decided to go for fake abduction and it was decided to make parents be negligent to they would be outside the apartment when it was supposed to have happened.

Those 2 facts are hoaxes. That’s what we defend in post.

Please note that all was decided under enormous pressure so to ask from those deciding to have been reasonable and logical is to be very unfair to them taking into account circumstances in which all was happening.

But let’s look at what other options there were to fake the abduction without neglect, and we can only see one and that would be to have the parents in the back terrace, or even backyard, having a relaxing drink with or without friends after having put the kids to bed.

They would have been outside the apartment and the bedroom and time window would have been “available”.

But it wasn’t the chosen one. Instead of opting for the terrace-hoax – which probably didn’t cross anyone’s mind under such pressure – they opted for the negligence-hoax.

The missing children did went to school, or mall, or playgrounds, even playing in the garden or own streets.My youngest (9) was missing on the beach for 3 ours when we went on vacation.I really wanted some nice family pictures from the sunset on the last evening.So.. I did wonder why the Mccanns or friends did not had many pictures or film from their child(ren) playing together.They use the word "family" a lot..Sharon Osborne is not from the perfect family att all.But she did keep them safe..I think it showed "hard work" to do so..

Or it could be quite feasible that they did neglect and too many knew creche staff baby sitters etc and why they tried to minimise it by dining in the garden etc Children do get abducted whilst parents asleep I'm sure we could find these cases,I'm not saying that's what happened and neglect definitely took place but it's as plausible as any theory in many ppls imagination

MADELEINE McCann's parents have lodged a new legal bid to silence the former detective who claims they covered up her death.

By Jerry Lawton / Published 30th May 2016

Goncalo Amaral overturned a court ruling ordering him to pay doctors Kate and Gerry McCann 500,000 Euro (£380,000) in libel damages over the claims in his best-selling book The Truth Of The Lie.

The victory meant the former policeman – who led the hunt for the youngster for five months after she vanished in Portugal in 2007 – did not have to pay the McCanns any compensation and could re-publish his book.

The couple, from Rothley, Leics, were ordered to pay his court costs.

But they have now submitted an appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court to overturn Mr Amaral's win.

If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter.

A friend of the couple said: "They are exasperated by this. The longer it goes on the more anguish it causes them.

"We hope the appeal will be successful.

"If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine.

"When Operation Grange ends Kate and Gerry will have to finance their own private investigation again."

The Daily Star has done it again. After saying that Mr Amaral won the right to accuse the McCanns, it now comes out and accuses them, explicitly, of misusing the fund’s money.

The article has 9 sentences, and 2 sentences, or 22.2% of the article, is to say exactly that:

- “If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter.”

- “If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine.”

Reminding people clearly what were the public donations for: “to help the search for their daughter” and “set up to find Madeleine”.

And telling people that this the money is being used to fight this legal battle instead.

And complaining that the money will run out to search for Maddie.

It’s like listening to someone whining for not having money given to them by a friend (the public) to pay rent (respectable and appropriate use, search for Maddie) because they wasted it all on gambling (abusive use, legal fees to seek censorship of book and compensation from alleged damages).

In which planet does that generate sympathy?

And what sentiment does it generate? Yep, another step up the McCann hate ladder.

But good friend Jerry Lawton,doesn't state that it is an abuse of the Madeleine Funds does he,he at no time questions if it is right that the "Find Madeleine Fund" is being misappropriated by the Governor's of the fund?No questions to be asked about Keith Haligen,Metodo3£500,000 to Bell Pottinger,did that come from within the funds,"Openness and Transparency" procedures to facilitate funds for personnel use?Remember Clarence Mitchell's words,"just put the money in an envelope addressed to the Find Madeleine Fund" and it will get their,Kerching?

Preparing for a loss and admitting the fund will be used, as there will be a drop in the (publicly available info) accounts.No more rich backers?If they lose, my bet is they will say Portugal values free speech more than the right to a good name. But I don't think British public willing to contribute to their fund.

Good point about tax and the fundIf used for personal expenses, 40% tax to pay from company funds.If not a charity, tax must be paid on personal expenses and to do otherwise is money laundering and tax fraud.Of 750k, legal expenses would be reduced to 450k if 40% taxable.Unless somebody in the background pays secretly.If existing fund, court costs could wipe it out.

Anon @ 16:14, IMO, 'someone in the background' is definitely backing the McCann's, firstly because I don't think you can keep up this charade for 9+ years without knowing where that money is coming from.

I cannot see how anyone knows the extraordinary amount of cash the duo have needed to keep the whole thing afloat, and now we're entering a process which is the most expensive of all, where it's clear that the duo feel absolutely no liability whatsoever - one simply has to ask 'Why?'

There has to be a reason why they believe they can continue, and it absolutely infuriates me!

What I find intriguing, is the question of whether Isabel Duarte will actually stand behind the words of the duo's continuing process, by letting the public know on what basis an appeal to the Supreme Court has been made.

I know we'll find out eventually, but why not explicitly state your reasoning on points of principle, and be proud to do so?

If we're greeted only with silence to this, I think we might know why!

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This blog believes that concerning the MADDIE McCANN case the following happened:

- Maddie McCanndied in the early evening of May 3rd, 2007, in the Apartment 5A. We believe the death to have been accidental.

- At the time of Maddie's death the Praia da Luz's Ocean Club was hosting a large swinging holiday (which we believe took place in various locations in and around Praia da Luz - from Lagos to Sagres) in which the McCanns and friends were part of among many others.

- After Maddie's death a cover-up of unseen proportions and scope took place not to hide Maddie's death but with the main purpose of hiding the presence of swinging. To achieve that, Maddie's death had to be hidden.

- We don't believe there was any sort of negligence involved in the Maddie affair. We don't believe that T9 dined at Tapas Bar from Sunday to Wednesday. We think that on those nights they left their children with professional nannies - as did other guests - to go dine downtown PdL. On Thursday night they did use Tapas but that was simply part of what was to be "negligence"that was required to allow Maddie to be "abducted."

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Luz - THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED

PdL - What a place. Why does anyone holiday there?It's populated by black heroin addicts, people who rob apartments, gypsies who steal scrap and wood, scruffy moustachioed lurers of children, bogus charity collectors, suspicious street musicians, men lurking near phone booths, glasses man lurking in stairwells, blond men suspiciously lurking outside apartments, soothing couples entering apartments without permission, mysterious gangs of cleaners, men taking photographs of children on beaches... And to top it all, you have to queue for a table booking.Anonymous 11Nov 2013 12:22:00

Maybe because you can always enjoy an ice-cream in the rain?And a dip in an icy pool on arrival always attracts a crowd.Textusa 11Nov 2013 12:28:00

I like the Tapas fragile chairs and tables. They wobble nicely when cutting thick grilled steaks spilling the drinks all about! It's fun for the whole family!Anonymous 11Nov 2013 13:08:00

And how about the number of men seen carrying little blond girls in the street in the middle of the night?Anonymous 11Nov 2013 14:04:00

PdL - where families take it in turn to vomit each night, dog packs pursue and bite joggers, guests fall off catamarans, damage tendons playing tennis, have shaving accidents and stagger around apartments bleeding, domestic appliances need repair, shutters jam, baby monitors won't function at restaurants, travel cots can't be assembled.. sounds like THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.Anonymous 12 Nov 2013 12:37:00

Child Catcher

Algarve - THE REGION OF THE DAMNED

“Algarve – Where Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Child Catcher found it ideal to roam the streets with his GYPSY-wagon:“There are children here somewhere. I can smell them. Come along, kiddie-winkies!”Algarve, the REGION OF THE DAMNED.”

Please Reconstruct I:

PJ's Declaration for Reopening Process:

"Madeleine McCann

As is the case with any situation in which a child goes missing, notwithstanding formal dismissal of the inquiry into her disappearance, and just as has always been publicly stated, the Polícia Judiciária never stopped paying close attention to any and all information that might possibly shed light on the whereabouts of the minor Madeleine McCann, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the identity of the perpetrator(s).

It was with this goal in mind that in March 2011 the National Director of the Polícia Judiciária entrusted a team of investigators from the North Directorate with the mission of reassessing, as a whole, the vast amount of information gathered during the inquiry, aimed at identifying data for which a more in-depth investigation might be useful and possible.

The reassessment which took place over the last two years and a half suggested new evidence to have surfaced, which, requiring the investigation to proceed, meets the requirements set out by section 279(1) of the Portuguese Code of Criminal Procedure for reopening of the inquiry.

Accordingly, a request for reopening was made to the Public Prosecutor for the jurisdiction of Portimao, and approval granted by the latter. "

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“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain

Revelations

"For the righteous, a revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth but for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses." Quote from the TV Series "Revenge" (T2 - Ep9)

Truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.Winston Churchill

The Revolution

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.George Orwell

The Revolution Goes Viral

"Once information networks become social, the implications are massive: truth can now travel faster than lies, and all propaganda becomes instantly flammable. Sure, you can try to insert spin, but the instantly networked consciousness of millions of people will set it right: they act like white blood cells against infection so that ultimately the truth, or something close to it, persists much longer than disinformation"The Guardian (04Jan12)

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts Winston Churchill

PRECIOUS, SO TRUE, WORDS

“One coincidence, two coincidences – maybe they’re still coincidences. Any more than that and it stops being coincidence.”

Kate McCann

(in MADELEINE, by Kate McCann, published in 2011 by Bantam Press, pg. 328)

Imagine...

"This says it all, Ms Loach hit the nail on the head!

"Ms Loach replied: “Imagine the public believing that you covered up your child’s death and then sought to make money out of it. They feel shame, humiliation and anguish."

Yes, that's exactly what we, the public, believe, because that's exactly what they did! And, their "shame, humiliation and anguish" are because they know we know!"

Comment posted by Anonymous to Textusa at Sep 16, 2013, 8:36:00 AM on "McCann vs Amaral Libel Trial" post referring to Mockumentary maker Emma Loach's testimony on the 1st day of said trial as one of McCann's defense witness.

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Hey textusa How are you? well I hope,just thought I would tell you that there are videos about you on youtube, claiming you are an internet predator who stole her daughters identity and prowls the forums for young boys, they say you are welsh!! I think its a case of mistaken identity because are you not portuguese and male? Anyway great blog. keep it up.(Anon., Nov 13th, 05:43)

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sabot:

“Wot Round Table?”

bonnybraes1:

“He/she/it invented a barking mad 'theory' about no-one actually having eaten in the Tapas, because he/she/it couldn't grasp the table arrangements.”

So, because textusa doesn't understand stuff like that, all the Tapas group, the staff, everyone, were lying.

OMG - you don't suppose textusa is actually Gonc, do you?”

sansouci:“Could be Bonny.

The 'theories' about the table and the watersports are really so far beyond bizarre, that I get the feeling that 'textusa' could actually be 'pisstaka'.”

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“Because no-one is more vicious in their search for payback that those who realise they have allowed themselves to be taken for a fool” (A "boomerang" comment left by an Anonymous (Insane?) at Sep 22, 2012 2:06:00 PM)

Insane's IMPORTANT Comments

“…How would any of you idiots like it if your name came into the public domain because you were witness to a crime, and some mad bitch set up a site in which she called you a liar, and claimed you were actually involved in the crime you witnessed? Just ponder on that for a moment”

Aug 28, 2011 9:27:00 AM

“…Where is your sense of shame or decency in accusing innocent witnesses of being involved in covering up the death of a child?

I see no shame or decency on here - just an utter indifference to the rights or feelings of others.

I notice no-one had the balls to answer my question about how you would feel if this was done to you - if you were a witness to a crime and some deranged cow on the internet accused you of being involved. You are all a complete disgrace.”

Aug 28, 2011 1:09:00 PM

FOOT IN THE MOUTH DISEASE

Insane (Nov 14, 2012 11:37:00 PM):

Oh look here - amazing what one can find out by means of a couple of emails to Mark Warner.

You are toast, lady. Finished.

I am going to enjoy this more than is actually decent.

Textusa (Nov 15, 2012 8:50:00 AM):

Well it seems that you're quite privy with the Ocean Club aren't you?

Them giving YOU the information about their own mails?

And you threatening us based on information that YOU apparently got from the Ocean Club.

That's really interesting, isn't it?

Insane (Nov 15, 2012 10:47:00 PM):

One thing I really like about Mark Warner is how helpful their staff are. Really go the extra mile for someone needing information. IYKWIM

:)

Textusa (Nov 16, 2012 11:17:00 AM):

Thank you for confirming that Mark Warner Staff are supplying YOU with information pertaining the Maddie Affair.

Insane's Moment of Rare Beauty

“It would be more suspicious if every account tallied. Police expect to find contradictions, don't tell me you did not know this?” (Nov 22, 2012 3:38:00 PM), when providing an opinion on contradictions from various statements in the PJ Files.

“I don't give a rat's arse about the statements which tally too closely - of course some of them tally too closely, there is an in depth analysis of them on my blog, the one you are not invited to.” (Nov 22, 2012 4:08:00 PM), when, exactly 30 minutes later, provides an opposite opinion, in this case about the fact that some of Tapas' Staff's statements tally too closely.

Insane the Entrepeneur?

"I'd love to stay, but I have a report to write, and it won't do itself, will it?" (Nov 29, 2012 8:14:00 PM)Insane the Disruptor, a new profession shown inNew Career Opportunities

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Textusa's new disclaimer. Please ignore all previous versions

''This blog expresses exclusively the exchange of ideas and opinions between people who have sniffed WAY too many solvents, and the imaginary people who live at the bottom of their garden, and so is not responsible for the enormous fines, possible imprisonment, or lifelong incarceration in a mental hospital which may result from it's content, as although it is on the interclickyweb, it is of a private nature, accompanied only by the voices in their heads, very much like any other conversation which takes place in a psychiatric ward between people rocking backwards and forwards in their seat and eating the wallcoverings, where FREEDOM OF SPEECH is exercised in the half hour per day of free association which the inmates are allowed.''Comment NOT published but submitted on Aug 22, 2011 10:17:00 PM

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We waited so long for the link...

A possible explanation for the wait: "As I have made perfectly clear, you and your sort will never have access to my blog. We are particular about who we invite, and would not include screaming harpies and riff-faff like yourself."unpublished comment from Insane at Nov 23, 2012 10:55:00 AM

Then, a glimmer of hope?“Publishing elsewhere the posts Textusa refuses to publish is also appropriate - and also gives you fools a chance to read what she withholds from you, knowing that you would desert her if you were aware of how much trouble she leads you into.” (Nov 29, 2012 12:40:00 PM)

No, it wasn’t to be so… :“For the last time, you will never be provided with a link for my blog - you are not welcome there and will never be given access”(Nov 29, 2012 1:38:00 PM)